(idiomatic) Mistreated; not properly cared for. / (colloquial, potentially offensive) Presumed to have had a significant number of lovers and showing the signs of overuse. (Typically said of women.)

(US) A policy allowing anybody who fled Cuba and entered the United States to stay and eventually pursue residency, with the exclusion of anybody found at sea.

(colloquial, Southern US) Alternative form of ridden hard and put away wet (“in either sense”)

Alternative form of way out of a paper bag

In order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some sacrifices must be made.

A castrated goat. / A castrated ram.

(transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.

Archaic spelling of weather.

(usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.

plural of wetland (“An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh”)